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W. T. SALTER;

FOLDING BED.

Patented Sept. 8, 1885.

PATENT O ICE.

WILLIAM T. SALTEB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,974, dated September 8, 1885. Application filed April 8, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, WILLIAM T. SALTER, of New York city, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following is a specification.

The invention applies to that class of fold ing beds in which the main portion is turned into an upright position. This class is, with some propriety, simply designated as turnup beds.

My improvements relate to'means for holding the mattress'and other parts in position, and for screening the unsightly portions when the bed is folded.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the bed when turned up or folded. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 8 is an edge 'view of the bed when extended or turned down into the position for use. Fig. 4 is a view of a detail on a larger scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they occur.

A is a stand, which may be movable and provided with casters, as shown. It is provided with a cross-bar, a, at about the midheight.

B is the main framing of the bedstead, turning on bearings B, supported on the stand A.

O O are hinges connecting the legs 0 to the framing B. The legs are joined by a crossbar, 0, at or near the mid-height.

W is a screen having a width nearly equal to the entire interior space in the framing B. It lies between the longitudinal springs or elastic bars M, which support the mattress O, and the crossbars a and c. This screen may be of rich wood or veneered, of considerable thickness, formed with panels after the fashion of a door. It is so represented in the drawings; but it should be made as thin as practicable. I propose in many cases to employ simply alight frame of wood or other suitable material, with muslin or other "light flexible stufl' stretched across. The outer face of the screen may be decorated in any suitable manner. I propose in some instances to face it strip is hinged or otherwise flexibly connected to the framing B along one edge and to the screen W along the other edge. It should be of such width as by its yielding when the bed is lowered to allow the screen W to rest on the cross-bars a and c. When the bed is turned up, this piece yields and allows the screen W and itself to lie in or near the plane of the frame B.

The mattress, with the accompanying sheets and other bed-clothes to be kept in place when the bed is turned up, I will designate as bedding 0.

Y is a coiled spring equipped with a snaphook, 3/, at each end. When the bed is to be folded or turned up, the hook at one end is engaged with an eye, Z, fixed in the side of the framing B. The spring is laid partly across over the bedding and strongly pulled, which extends it so that the hook at the other end may engage in a corresponding eye, Z, in the other side of the framing. This embraces the beddingwith sufficient firmness, and accommodates itself to any additions or subtract-ions of the bed-clothes or changes of the mattress from time to time. I attach importance to the fact that the spring Y is spiral, and therefore both flexible and extensible, so that it may accommodate itself to various quantities and arrangements of bed-clothing, and also to the provision by the snap-hook y for disconnecting at each end. The latter makes it easy to disengage from either side 0f the bed, thus accommodating various arrangements of the bed in the room. It is also easy to disconnect the whole and put it out of the Way, and again to engage itwith very little labor.

Insteadof spiral wire, other elastic material, as a strip of india-rubber, may serve for the spring Y.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the .stand A, having cross-bar a, of the frame B, hinged to said stand, the legs 0, hinged to the frame B, and having cross-bars c, and the screen W" and strip X, loosely connected to the fi ame, my hand, at New York city, New York, this as set forth. 4th day of April, 1884, in the presence of two 2. The spiral spring Y and snap-hooks subscribing witnesses.

31y, one at each end, in combination with a H WILLIAM T. SALTER. 5 folding bed, and arranged to serve therewith Vitnesses:

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In testimony whereof I v WM. 0. DEY, have hereunto set I M. F. BOYLE. 

